How to move certain syslog events to other files from /var/log/messages

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Issue

  • Customer needs to log certain syslog events to other log files. For example, all critical alerts should be directed to another log file in stead of /var/log/messages.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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